reprobation/reprimand/censure of nobility, also translated by Norman Davies as Test of Nobility was a legal procedure of the revocation of nobility in the Polish–Lithuanian...

royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristics associated with nobility may...

I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts federal...

Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total...

Commission of the Nobility (French: Commission d'information et de liaison des associations nobles d'Europe, CILANE) is an organisation for cooperation of European...

lowest grantable rank of nobility, and the basic unit of rank progression. For example, a yunjiwei who received another grant of yunjiwei became a jiduwei...

accepts a real duel. Each Duelist was given a rose crest ring by the End of the World. Utena also has a rose crest, but hers came from a prince she met...

called a prova di nobiltà, a "test of nobility". This was particularly required of Venetian colonial elite in outlying regions of the Venetian thalassocracy...

test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer, or in a predetermined area that requires a test taker to demonstrate or perform a set of skills...

a test of nobility is required by an organisation such as a nobility association or an order of chivalry. As official grants of hereditary nobility are...

This is a list of fictional nobility that have appeared in various works of fiction. This list is organized by noble rank and limited to well-referenced...

McMahon, footballer (Middlesbrough FC) Trevor McMahon (born 1929), New Zealand Test cricketer Vincent McMahon (cricketer) (1918–1988), Australian cricketer Wade...

False titles of nobility or royal title scams are claimed titles of social rank that have been fabricated or assumed by an individual or family without...

the St. Louis Cardinals Otto Merz (1889–1933), chauffeur, race car driver, test driver and mechanic Otto Fahr (1892–1969), backstroke swimmer Christian Werner...

was a lady at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Anne Knollys was the third daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1514–1596)...

Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1928. She was also Dame of Grace of the Order of Saint John (DGStJ) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of the...

served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe before and during World War II. She was the second German woman to be awarded the honorary title of Flugkapitän...

"Prescott undergoes tests in hospital". The Guardian. 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2008-06-13. Rizzo, John (2014). Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis...

member of the school's Motor Club, along with John Cunningham, who would later be famous as an RAF night fighter ace and test pilot. Towards the end of her...

Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. At the age of 31, Reid was given medical charge of the Royal Household at Balmoral. Queen Victoria became...

foreign monarchies and the nobility, based on the maintenance of the feudal regime. This alliance prevented the emergence of an active, enterprising bourgeoisie...

territories. The classes of the order became Knight, Commander, Commander by Number, and Grand Cross. The concession and tests of nobility was suppressed in...

1469, and Malta became part of the Spanish Empire. Meanwhile, Malta's administration fell in the hands of local nobility who formed a governing body called...

French nobility. The total population of Trinidad was 17,718, of which 2,151 were of European ancestry, 4,476 were "free blacks and people of colour"...

played a part in the early development of television broadcasting. On 30 March 1930, experimental television tests were made there using thirty-line pictures...

translation posed multiple challenges: Georgian lacks equivalents for European nobility and clergy titles due to different social and religious traditions, requiring...

freedoms, and an extension of voting rights with literacy tests; it also provided for a selective land reform with the full abolition of the corvée. In January...

young man?" This conversation was the Emperor's barely concealed attempt to test his relatives' reactions, were he to legally adopt and make his son and daughters...

Polish–Lithuanian union, the Lithuanian nobility agreed to conclude the Union of Lublin in 1569 with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which created a new federative...

James II, effective head of the Catholic nobility, at whom it was largely aimed. In Scotland, a religious test was imposed immediately after the Reformation...